Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:08:34 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: "Anthony M. Magsino" <ammag@kulog.upm.edu.ph> Cc: Rick van Rein <vanrein@cs.utwente.nl>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting without BIOS support Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10111170104110.77634-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1011117110259.6170A-100000@kulog.upm.edu.ph>
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Anthony M. Magsino wrote: > Hi Rick, > > This is Anthony from the Philippines. Try copying *.img's (mfs.img > and kernel.img, i think) from CD1 unto DOS formatted floppies. You should > be able to boot from them. Good luck! The two files you need are called kern.flp and mfsroot.flp; they're in the \floppies directory on CD1. (Don't use boot.flp; it's for 2.88 MB floppies.) You want to create the two floppies with the commands: fdimage kern.flp a: and fdimage mfsroot.flp a: The fdimage.exe program is in the \tools directory on CD1, and of course you need to provide full path names. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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